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SUMMARY:IC Colloquium: Learning analytics as the regulation of educational
  processes
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DESCRIPTION:By: Patrick Jermann - EPFL\nDigital Vocational Education & Tra
 ining candidate\n\nAbstract:\nEveryone is excited by the large amounts of 
 educational data that are created through massive online courses\, or the 
 detailed behavioural traces made available by technologies like eye-tracke
 rs. The excitement comes from the idea that we could use data science tech
 niques to filter the data\, detect patterns\, diagnose learners and finall
 y optimise education. In this talk I describe learning analytics following
  a model inspired by control theory and distributed cognition. Following c
 ontrol theory\, educational processes could be improved by collecting data
  about the current state of the situation and triggering actions when need
 ed to influence the process. Following distributed cognition\, humans and 
 computers complement each other in monitoring and controlling the process.
  In addition to data science\, research in human computer interaction and 
 field studies are necessary to design tools that help learners\, teachers 
 or managers take better educational decisions. I finally propose a researc
 h agenda based on this approach to facilitate the digital transformation o
 f the Swiss vocational education system.\n\nBio:\nPatrick Jermann received
  a PhD degree in psychology in 2004 from the University of Geneva. He star
 ted his career in the TECFA team (University of Geneva) designing and stud
 ying online environments featuring innovative collaboration scripts. From 
 2000 to 2003 he was a visiting researcher at the University of Pittsburgh 
 in the Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC). From 2003 to 2013\
 , he was a researcher and a lecturer of computer science in the CRAFT team
  at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. His research about the
  regulation of collaborative activity involved tangible interfaces\, augme
 nted reality and dual eye tracking. Since 2013 he is the executive directo
 r of the Center for Digital Education\, where he built the team that creat
 ed 120 MOOCs and attracted more than 2 million learners worldwide. His cur
 rent projects include the Swiss MOOC Service\, a national MOOC platform f
 or Swiss universities\; the EPFL Learning Companion\, an online tool for s
 tudents to assess their learning skills\; a centralised Jupyter Notebooks 
 facility for education and Campus Analytics\, an initiative to mine inst
 itutional data to provide recommendations to students\, teachers and educa
 tional managers.\n\nMore information
LOCATION:BC 420 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20420
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